characterizing
USKAIR-uhk-tuh-ryz-ing/ˈkɛɹəktəɹaɪzɪŋ/UKKA-ruhk-tuh-ryz-ing/ˈkæɹəktəɹaɪzɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of characterize. Use this form for an action happening now or as the name of the action itself.
She spent the meeting characterizing her rival as careless.
Characterizing the problem in plain words helped the team fix it.
Note
characterizing is a form of characterize
characterize, verb: To describe someone or something in a certain way, often a bad or unfair way. Full entry
- Forms
- characterizecharacterizes he/she/itcharacterizing -ing formcharacterized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- characterize → characterizing: drop the e, add -ing
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